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...those countries. Young people, many of them nominally Communists, had taken seriously Khrushchev's thesis that a new day was dawning, and were pressing actively for freedom and reforms. In Russia itself youth was also on the move, and did not seem to care whose sacred feet it trod on. Rising to address a youth rally at Moscow University recently, Khrushchev was greeted with a continuous thunder of applause that prevented him from speaking. Thus the Moscow students expressed their contempt for the present Communist leadership and expressed their solidarity with the youth of Poland and Hungary...
...action to reduce his state's automobile accident rate. On his order (and a warning that no crackdown would mean no reappointment), Connecticut judges began handing speeders 30-day license suspensions on first arrest and 60-day suspensions for second offenses. With mixed prudence and pride, Connecticut motorists trod more lightly on the gas pedal. Last week Ribicoff happily announced the first fruits of his campaign: in the first three months of this year, Connecticut traffic fatalities were nearly 15% lower (down to 63) than in the first quarter...
...winter day, in pursuit of sport, Gilmore and Perkins went ice skating together on the frozen Charles. Gilmore trod upon thin ice. Waist-level and below, in fact, his usual composure was seriously threatened. But from the waist up, Myron Gilmore was still unruffled. Characteristically, he was able to rise above most of the crisis. He had fallen only halfway through...
...monument was raised to the inventor, James Black, more than half a century ago. The ashes of his old blacksmith shop, where he produced the knife, are covered by this monument in the town of Washington, Ark., on the old Spanish Trail. Past this shop ran the footpath trod by every emigrant who went to Texas and every murderer who was chased back . . . More murders were committed between Washington and the Cross Timbers than in any other spot of similar size in the U.S. in the early days...
Khrushchev moved on to a more controversial subject, not seeming to mind whose toes his heavy boots trod upon. "Lenin taught that the building of heavy machines, capable of reorganizing agriculture, can be the only material basis of socialism," he said. "This Lenin line was followed under Stalin's leadership, is being followed at present, and will be followed in future." He branded the more-consumer-goods faction as saboteurs. "This is a grave mistake, alien to the spirit of Marxist-Leninist reasoning ... It is a belching of rightist deviation, a belching of views hostile to Leninism which were...